Smith's Bible Dictionary. Comprising Antiquities, Biography, Geography, Natural History; with Numerous Illustrations and Maps, Compiled from Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible; Illustrated with Over Five Hundred Engravings. A History of the Book…

[viii], 786, [10] pp. 8vo. Original full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Color fold-out map of The Holy Land, engraved frontispiece of Jerusalem, color fold-out map of Palestine and numerous engravings throughout text. "Smith's Bible Dictionary, originally named A Dictionary of the Bible, was a 19th century Bible dictionary containing upwards of four thousand entries that became named after its editor, William Smith. Its popularity was such that condensed dictionaries appropriated the title, "Smith's Bible Dictionary". The original dictionary was published as a three volume set in 1863, in London and Boston, USA. This first edition was followed in 1884 by an expanded four volume version which was published in the United States as Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines, edited by Smith and Henry Wace."